Brandon Sprague

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Software Engineer | Southern Oregon

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer
Airbnb
2025 - Present
Designed + built Airbnb's next-generation booking orchestration system.
  • TL for the team building out the core booking orchestrator, which powers checkout (and more) at Airbnb
  • Currently migrating the entire legacy system to the new stack, without breaking production (hopefully)
Co-founder
Silicon Ally
2021 - Present
Founded a nonprofit specializing in software development for nonprofits with missions related to the environment and global inequality. We ran out of money so now I do this in my free time.
The Cloud Engineer
WaveOne (acquired by Apple)
2021 - 2022
Built a video encoding platform (think Mux) and deployed the team's neural net-based video compression model.
  • Designed and built scalable video encoding pipeline on AWS
  • Integrated GPU-enabled machine learning models
  • Designed and built API and web frontends
Senior Software Engineer
Verily (Alphabet)
2017 - 2021
Backend tech lead for several large commercial projects, leading teams distributed across multiple locations.
  • Led teams building systems for managing fleets of surgical robots, and GPU-enabled surgical video ML inference pipelines
  • Led a team of engineers (split between San Francisco, Boston, and Shanghai) building the backend for Lumi by Pampers system
  • Led a team of engineers (split between San Francisco and Boston) building the backend for Verily Patch
Software Engineer
Google (Alphabet)
2015 - 2017
Software Engineer
Pioneer Valley Transit Authority
2012 - 2015
  • Developed bus fleet management web applications in Ruby on Rails
  • Maintained servers, managed deployments, drove buses sometimes

Skills and Whatnot

Education

Bachelor of Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst Honors College
2011 - 2015
  • Majors: Computer Systems Engineering & Computer Science
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude, GPA: 3.954